Cognitive psychologist Lera Boroditsky has reported that aboriginal children from Cape York, Australia, can accurately point to any compass direction as early as age five, while most Americans cannot do this even as adults. Boroditsky believes this is due to the exclusive use of absolute directional references within the language spoken by the aboriginals of Cape York as opposed to the relative
directional references used in the English language, which lends support to the
a. law of linguistic effect.
b. linguistic relativity hypothesis.
c. semantic differential.
d. transformation rule hypothesis.
B
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Which criticism has been applied to Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development?
A. Stages aren't distinct enough to capture the sudden jumps in qualitative reasoning that children go through. B. Piaget proposed too many stages of cognitive development in adolescence. C. The preoperational stage should really be divided into three substages. D. Piaget underestimated the ages at which children could master various cognitive tasks.
Motor development reflects an interaction between maturation and environment in which the infant acquires what?
What will be an ideal response?
The term crystallized intelligence refers to
A) the ability to deal with new problems and situations. B) changes in IQ that occur over time. C) cross-cultural differences in the meaning and measuring of intelligence. D) accumulation of information, skills, and strategies that people have learned through experience and that they can apply in problem-solving situations.
A sample whose characteristics are the same as those of the population it is intended to reflect is called a ____ sample.
a) representative b) characteristic c) typical d) prototypical